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opened on May 8. — Agricultural hall, recently erected by the Uni- 

 versity of California at a cost of $200,000, is ready for occupancy. 



Endowments. Western Reserve University has completed its 

 endowment fund of $1,000,000 for the medical school, $250,000 of 

 which was contributed by Mr. John D. Rockefeller. — A chair of 

 agriculture will be established in the University of Queensland, 

 toward which Mr. Robert Philp has offered to give £1,400 and Mr. 

 R. M. Christison £1,000. — Appropriation bills in behalf of the Col- 

 lege of Agriculture, Cornell University, to the amount of $907,000, 

 of which $788,000 is immediately available, were passed by the New 

 York legislature at its recent session and signed by the Governor. — 

 The bill appropriating $250,000 for the development of work in 

 public health and medicine at the University of Illinois, failed of 

 passage in the special session of the Illinois legislature. 



A nezv Pasteur Institute. The Pasteur Institute, for the manu- 

 facture of virus to be used in combating rabies, is the latest addition 

 to the scientific laboratories of the University of California. Dr. 

 W. A. Sawyer is the director. 



Cancer research. With the appointment of Prof. F. C. Wood 

 to the Position of director of cancer research at Columbia University 

 on the George Crocker Research Foundation, the final step has been 

 taken in the Organization of the work which will be conducted with 

 this great gift. The construction of the laboratories and the Organi- 

 zation of the staff will probably consume another year, so that it will 

 be some time before effective research will be under way. This 

 appointment will add certain further resources of great advantage 

 to the Crocker fund, for Professor Wood will continue as director 

 of the laboratories of St. Luke's Hospital, where he has a clinical 

 Service for the scientific study of special cases. This will permit the 

 workers on the Crocker foundation to investigate, with speed and 

 certainty, the claims of alleged cancer eures; and if any of the 

 Columbia investigators discover a remedy for cancer, the necessary 

 preliminary tests could easily be made in Professor Wood's Service 

 in St. Luke's. 



The endowment fund of the General Memorial Hospital has 

 been increased by a contribution of $100,000, from a scientist whose 



